Example Sentences

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"I'm not so sure of that," a light skirmisher broke his silence for the first time.

From Imaginary Interviews by Howells, William Dean

Ten yards more, then some luckless skirmisher trips on some unseen root, stumbles forward, and swears under his breath.

From From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days by King, Charles

Neither should a skirmisher have much to fear from a single horseman.

From A Treatise on the Tactical Use of the Three Arms: Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry by Lippitt, Francis J. (Francis James)

They moved off, not in the direction of the park, but of the road, and I lay along the grass, peeping over a grave, as a skirmisher might, observing the enemy.

From In a Glass Darkly, v. 2/3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

For a last time, Houston hit a skirmisher and was hit in return.

From The White Desert by Fischer, Anton Otto